Rodney looked around the Ancient machine; he wondered how this primitive race ever kept just a beautiful design so clean and in working order. John stood on the other platform with the consol, it lit up like Christmas tree "So now what?" John asked looking at the blonde male who brought them to the temple
"Well you stand there." He said to Rodney
"Oh…right." He said as he moved to the platform to face John, he put his hand on the handles as did John and the machine started making a buzzing sound and the amber light turned blue
"What does that mean?" John asked, the boy smiled at them ad tilts his head
"It might hurt." The blonde boy grinned
"What!" Both older men said as the boy ran off
"HEY GET BACK HERE!" John yelled as the buzzing sound got louder, they tried to pull their hands free but they seem to be stuck.
John tried to pull his hands free as he did Rodney who was having a panic attack "When I get of there I will ring that boy's neck!" He cried out, just as the buzzing got deafen it stopped and the two men look at each other
"Maybe it ran out of juice?" John offered
"Yeah maybe…" He was stopped just as a red light was zipped at John first and once it was off him he fell to the floor, and then the red light fell on Rodney it was on him longer making him cry out in pain before the light was off him and he fell on the stone floor beside John.
They were rushed back to Atlantis and straight Carson and his team, they worked around John and Rodney to find out what happen to them but finding nothing wrong with them all they could do is let them rest later Elizabeth walks in to check on them "How are they?" She asked
"Well they are healthy, but I am concerned about Rodney."
"Why I thought you said they were healthy?" The red head woman asked, the doctor rubbed the back of his head and handed her his pad
"His estrogen leaves are too high for any normal male." He told her, she looked at the pad and frowned as she moved he page up and down looking at the results "And there's this." He tells her
"What is it?" she asked "A growth?" She looked at it squinting her eyes
"Ay I say it is, but look at the scans."
She slides the page across and looked at the scans of Rodney's lower abdomen and gasp "Can this be right?" She asked him as he looked back at the screen
"I think it is, I did the test three times, I even went as far as getting the machine fixed to make sure. Whatever that thing was had gotten him Pregnant."
"What about John?" She asked
"No he's clean which makes me think, they were both on the device at the same time."
"Yeah they were and?"
"What if it took one person DNA and transferred it to the other person, I mean it had to create a the interworking of the female body for this to happen and by the looks of the size of the foetus I say it speed it up by 3 month."
"Hold on are you saying that Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard is the father of Rodney's baby, that happen due to a device." She said trying to get her head around it.
"Ay I am."
"Oh god." Elizabeth said slowing her eyes "Can it be removed?"
"Maybe, but I don't want to do anything with asking them."
A few hours later
"What?" Rodney asked as he looked at his friend, the doctor looked nervous as he explained everything again
"I'm not joking Rodney you can do the scans for yourself if you like but you are ...pregnant." The sciences paled as he felt his eyes widen, John was rubbing his head also trying to get his head around it
"Ummm so this device did this?" He asked
"Ay Colonel."
"And I'm the father?" He asked, the words felt odd on his tongue as he looked between Rodney who looks like he is about to be sick and then he looked to Carson who slowly trying to back away from Rodney.
"Yes."
"Umm." John said
"Umm? Ummm is that all you can say is Ummm!" Rodney started yelling "You got me pregnant!" he yelled, John turned to look at him
"It's not like I did anything Rodney!" John said
"It's you and that bloody gene of yours, if it hadn't set the machine off…"
"Rodney that machine works whether or not you have the gene!" John told hold,
"Can we please stop yelling?" Carson said loudly enough to stop them; they froze and looked at him Rodney still looking pale "This not anyone's fault but I need to ask Rodney do you want to get rid of it?"
"No!" every one jumped at Rodney's reaction
"Are you sure?" Carson asked him
"Yes, I'm sure." They all waited for him explain more but when he didn't John ask them to leave.
Once they were gone and left them alone in the corner of the medical room, getting up the dark hair Colonel walked over to his friend and sat next to him "You want to keep it?" he asked softly
"Yes."
"Why you hate children?" John asked him, Rodney gave him a shaky chuckle and shrugged
"I don't know why I know I want to, it will the first life born in this place." He said, John placed a hand on his shoulders and patted his back
"To ask a silly question do you want me to help out?"
"That is a silly question... of course I do!" he said looking at him "I know nothing about children and even less about …about this!" He said waving his arm to himself
"Relax Rodney I was only asking, of course I'm going to help you."